Studio can get in a state where camera rotation is not possible unless you press F on random object

I had an issue where whenever I opened a specific game, my camera could move with arrow/WASD and other keys, but would not rotate at all with mouse input.

After trying several things, I found this post: Camera movement not working - #3 by vvhereelse

It sounds like the Studio camera was serialized in my game with properties that prevented it to rotate properly (e.g. far away or NaN?)

To resolve this, I had to press F on a random object to reset the camera’s focus. After that, rotation was restored. There was no indication that this was the issue so this took a while to debug. It persisted throughout restarts of the place.

Expected behavior

When a place loads, detect if the camera is in a state where it cannot rotate properly (e.g. focus too far away or NaN), if so reset it so the camera isn’t broken.

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